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ESA Land Cover

ESA land cover class data product. Categories used are cropland (rainfed, irrigated, mosaic), forest, grassland, shrubland, sparse vegetation, wetland, urband, bare areas, water bodies, and snow ice. UN Land Cover Classification System (LCCS) categories were grouped according to their IPCC classes, except for agriculture which was broken into 3 different types of cropland. The original land cover class names are modified in export file for readability and ease of use. The full name of each class can be found from land cover map user guide: https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/satellite-land-cover. Version 2.0.7cds provides the LC maps for the years 1992-2015 and version 2.1.1 for the years after 2016 (both versions are produced with the same processing chain).

Details

Type raster
Datetime 2000-01-01 – 2002-01-01
Temporal type year
Tags esa, landcover, environment
Variable land cover class

Resources

Name Label Date
esa_landcover_2000 2000 2000-01-01
esa_landcover_2002 2002 2002-01-01

Value Mappings

Value Label
0 no_data
10 rainfed_cropland
20 irrigated_cropland
30 mosaic_cropland
50 forest
110 grassland
120 shrubland
140 sparse_vegetation
180 wetland
190 urban
200 bare_areas
210 water_bodies
220 snow_ice

Citation

Defourny, P. (2017): ESA Land Cover Climate Change Initiative (Land_Cover_cci): Land Cover Maps, v2.0.7. Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, 7/2017